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A computer-assisted study of the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals [PDF]

, 2015
This study combines quantitative semi-automated corpus methods with manual qualitative analysis to investigate the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life in a 1,500,000-word corpus of data from three stakeholder groups in healthcare ...
Demmen, J, Elena Semino, Koller, Veronika, Semino, Elena, Demjen, Zsofia, Veronika Koller, Demjen, Zofia, Koller, V, Payne, Sheila, Rayson, P, Demjén, Z, Payne, S, Hardie, Andrew, Zsófia Demjén, Rayson, Paul, Hardie, A, Paul Rayson, Sheila Payne, Semino, E, Andrew Hardie, Demmen, Jane Elizabeth, Jane Demmen, Demmen, Jane   +22 more
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rats or garbage? Dehumanizing politicians through metaphor

Studies in English Language and Education
The public often show their disappointment with dishonest politicians through dehumanizing metaphors. This study aimed to analyze the use of metaphors to dehumanize Indonesian politicians on X social media, formerly Twitter.
Novi Eka Susilowati, I Dewa Putu Wijana, Hayatul Cholsy   +2 more
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Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
wiley   +1 more source

The role of metaphor in shaping the identity and agenda of the United Nations: the imagining of an international community and international threat [PDF]

, 2011
This article examines the representation of the United Nations in speeches delivered by its Secretary General. It focuses on the role of metaphor in constructing a common ‘imagining’ of international diplomacy and legitimising an international ...
McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa, Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis   +1 more
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Prognostic Potential of Political Metaphors [PDF]

, 2019
The problem we dwell upon is the role of metaphors in political forecasting. Political forecasting is a powerful means of manipulating the audience.
Chudinov, Anatoly, Solopova, Olga
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“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN TONY BLAIR’S POLITICAL DISCOURSE (1998–2006) [PDF]

, 2015
This article is aimed to describe linguistic metaphors and to reconstruct the conceptual metaphors which determine the origin of these linguistic metaphors in Tony Blair’s political discourse. Political discourse is an object of discourse analysis, which
Linkevičiūtė, Vilma; Vilnius University
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Support and destigmatization in early pregnancy loss in Spain

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Early miscarriages are a frequent reproductive event, often silenced and shrouded in stigma. Feminist anthropology has pointed out how such losses challenge the widespread Euro‐American social representations of motherhood and pregnancy, as well as societal unease with death.
Giulia Colavolpe‐Severi, Alexandra Desy, Carolina Remorini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates

Language and Cognition
Metaphors, arguments and emotional appeals have considerable persuasive power in political discourse, yet they are rarely studied together. To explore the interactions between these interrelated phenomena, we employ three methods of analysis: Metaphor ...
Konrad Juszczyk, Barbara Konat, Małgorzata Fabiszak   +2 more
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